Reef: Next Stop...The World!
Ben Myers, Kerrang!, 10 April 1999
Mullet-spotting, interviews with idiotic Euro-hacks and close encounters with transvestites in restaurant toilets – REEF's bid for global domination is only 24 hours old and already the madness has started. No wonder frontman Gary Stringer is thinking of changing his name to Ethelred...
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